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FRAMEWORKS FOR THINKING ABOUT THE URBAN
Wednesday, September 4
What is a city?
Lecturer: Leonard Nevarez.
Questions for today:
1. How does a city differ from a metropolis and an urban area?
2. How does urbanization differ from urbanism?
Monday, September 9
A brief history of urbanization through the industrial revolution
Lecturer: Leonard Nevarez.
Questions for today:
1. How have cities historically organized the conditions for human civilization?
2. How does the accumulation of surplus drive urbanization and urbanism?
3. How does the medieval town introduce features associated with urbanism?
Assigned readings:
Lewis Mumford, "What is a City?" In The Lewis Mumford Reader, edited by Donald L. Miller (Pantheon, 1986 [1938]), pp. 104-107.
Wednesday, September 11
URBAN HISTORY: VICTORIAN CITIES
Monday, September 16
The Growth of the Industrial City.
Lecturer: Lydia Murdoch.
Question for today:
What major demographic, social, and environmental changes marked the rise of modern industrial cities?
Assigned readings:
Friedrich Engels, "The Great Towns." In The Condition of the Working Class in England (Penguin Books 1987 [1845]), pp. 68-110.
Wednesday, September 18
State Power and Early Urban Reform Movements.
Lecturer: Lydia Murdoch.
Questions for today:
1. How did the nineteenth and early-twentieth-century growth of state-directed urban sanitary reform movements influence the formation of social classes and class conflict?
2. How did urban reform movements contribute to racial hierarchies and power relations in imperial contexts?
Assigned readings:
Anthony S. Wohl, "Fever! Fever!" In Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain (Harvard University Press, 1983), pp. 117-141, 372-377.
Ranjana Sengupta, "Enshrining an Imperial Tradition," India International Centre Quarterly 33.2 (Autumn 2006): 13-26.
Monday, September 23
Gender and the Late-Victorian City
Lecturer: Lydia Murdoch.
Questions for today:
1. What gender expectations were associated with specific urban spaces within late-Victorian London?
2. How did accounts of female "slummers" both reinforce and challenge these expectations?
Assigned readings:
Lydia Murdoch, "Urban Life" (ch. 7), in Daily Life of Victorian Women (Greenwood Press, 2014), 205-229.
Select one of the following primary sources: "A Lady Resident" (1889); Annie Besant, "White Slavery in London" (1888); Margaret Harkness, "Barmaids" (1889); or Olive Christian Malvery, "Gilding the Gutter" (1905), in Ellen Ross, ed., Slum Travelers: Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).
Recommended, Ellen Ross, "Introduction: Adventures Among the Poor," Slum Travelers.
Wednesday, September 25
Lecturer: Leonard Nevarez.
Monday, September 30
Lecturer: Brian Godfrey.
Wednesday, October 2
Lecturer: Brian Godfrey.
Monday, October 7
Lecturer: Brian Godfrey.
Wednesday, October 9
Lecturer: Leonard Nevarez.
Fall break: October 12-20
Monday, October 21
Wednesday, October 23
Monday, October 28
Wednesday, October 30
Monday, November 4
Wednesday, November 6
DAY AFTER ELECTION DAY.
SPECIAL EVENT: evening of Wednesday, November 6
Prentiss Dantzler lecture.
Monday, November 11
Wednesday, November 13
Lecturer: Pinar Batur.
Monday, November 18
Wednesday, November 20
Lecturer: Pinar Batur.
Monday, November 25
Wednesday, November 27
Lecturer: Pinar Batur.
November 28-29: THANKSGIVING RECESS
Monday, December 2
Wednesday, December 4
Monday, December 9
Last day of class.
Lecturer: Leonard Nevarez.
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